(Filmmaker in person)

Rabia is based in part upon the life and death of Wafa Idris, Palestine’s first female suicide bomber. In the words of its director, the title character is “a woman who must blow herself up in order to exist.” This provocative statement is given flesh through flashbacks of life events which bring this young woman to choose death. Her body strapped with explosives, Rabia is confronted with her choice on a popular Israeli beach.

(2008, 24 min.) – G.R.